[en] I review quark momentum distributions in the nucleon at large momentum fractions x. Particular attention is paid to the impact of nuclear effects in deuterium on the d/u quark distribution ratio as x → 1. A new global study of parton distributions, using less restrictive kinematic cuts in Q² and W², finds strong suppression of the d quark distribution once nuclear corrections are accounted for.

[en] We review progress in the study of quark-hadron duality in nucleon structure functions. New developments include insights into local duality obtained using truncated moments of structure functions, which allow duality-violating higher-twist contributions to be identified in individual resonance regions. Studies of pion electroproduction have also showed the first glimpses of duality in semi-inclusive cross sections, which if confirmed would greatly expand the scope of constraining the flavor and spin dependence of parton distributions

[en] I review the role of two-boson exchange corrections to parity-violating elastic electron-proton scattering. Direct calculations of contributions from nucleon and Δ intermediate states show generally small, Ο(1-2%), effects over the range of kinematics relevant for proton strangeness form factor measurements. For the forward angle Qweak experiment at Jefferson Lab, which aims to measure the weak charge of the proton, corrections from the γZ box diagram are computed within a dispersive approach and found to be sizable at the E∼1 GeV energy scale of the experiment.

[en] We review recent progress in the study of quark-hadron duality in electron-nucleon structure functions. New developments include insights into the local aspects of duality obtained using truncated moments of structure functions, which allow duality-violating higher-twist contributions to be identified in individual resonance regions. Preliminary studies of pion electropro-duction have also showed the first glimpses of duality in semi-inclusive cross sections, which if confirmed would greatly expand the scope of constraining the flavor and spin dependence of parton distributions.

[en] I review recent progress in understanding the structure of the nucleon sea and the role of the nucleon's pion cloud. In particular, I discuss the consequences of the pion cloud for the d-bar - u-bar asymmetry in the proton, the neutron's electric form factor, and the proton's electric to magnetic form factor ratio.

[en] On the occasion of his 60th birthday, this workshop honours the outstanding achievements and service to subatomic physics which Tony Thomas has made over a career spanning almost 4 decades. The workshop will review recent results and discuss new directions for nuclear and hadron physics, focusing on topics to which Tony has made significant contributions, such as pion-nucleon scattering, deep inelastic scattering, chiral extrapolations, quark models of the nucleon, and lattice QCD.

[en] We review recent developments in the study of deep inelastic scattering from light nuclei, focusing in particular on deuterium, helium, and lithium nuclei. Understanding the nuclear effects in these systems is essential for the extraction of information on the neutron structure function

[en] We present a complete analysis of the chiral extrapolation of lattice moments of all twist-2 isovector quark distributions, including corrections from N[pi] and [Delta][pi] loops. Even though the [Delta] resonance formally gives rise to higher order non-analytic structure, the coefficients of the higher order terms for the helicity and transversity moments are large and cancel much of the curvature generated by the wave function renormalization. The net effect is that, whereas the unpolarized moments exhibit considerable curvature, the polarized moments show little deviation from linearity as the chiral limit is approached

[en] We analyze the moments of parton distribution functions in the pion calculated in lattice QCD, paying particular attention to their chiral extrapolation. Using the lowest three non-trivial moments calculated on the lattice, we assess the accuracy with which the x-dependence of both the valence and sea quark distributions in the pion can be extracted. The resulting valence quark distributions at the physical pion mass are in fair agreement with existing Drell-Yan data, but the statistical errors are such that one cannot yet confirm (or rule out) the large-x behavior expected from hadron helicity conservation in perturbative QCD. One can expect, however, that the next generation of calculations in lattice QCD will allow one to extract parton distributions with a level of accuracy comparable with current experiments

[en] The Fat Link Irrelevant Glover (FL1C) fermion action and its associated phenomenology is described. The scaling analysis indicates FLIC fermions provide a new form of nonperturbative O(a) improvement where near-continuum results are obtained at finite lattice spacing spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 , even and odd parity nucleon resonances are investigated